Overnight updates

The US and five Arab nations carried out 14 airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria overnight Monday, and an additional eight on an al-Qaeda branch group, the Pentagon announced early Tuesday morning.
US president Barack Obama claimed the backing of five Arab nations for intensive military attacks against IS targets in Syria showed the offensive was not “America’s fight alone”, as his military chiefs warned the intensive air assault was only the start of a sustained campaign likely to last years.
Leader the Khorasan militant group in Syria, Muhsin al-Fadhli, a Kuwaiti-born al-Qaida leader, was killed along with his wife and daughter in the raids that targeted several group sites in the northwestern province of Idlib.
Syrian state media carried a brief statement from the foreign ministry, saying that “the American side informed Syria’s permanent envoy to the UN that strikes will be launched against the Daesh terrorist organization in Raqqa.” The US denied such claims.
The US carried out three additional airstrikes against Islamic State militans, the Pentagon announced Tuesday evening.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has criticized US-led airstrikes against IS in Syria as being "illegal".